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Tertiary alkyl halides are practically inert to substitution by S_(N^(2)) mechanism because of

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insolubility
instability
inductive effect
steric hindrance.

Solution :Since steric hindrance is MAXIMUM in tertiary alkyl halides, the attacking nulceophile will get little opportunity to attack the SUBSTRATE. Therefore, `S_(N^(2))` MECHANISM is not FAVOURED.


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